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qb45 on Nov 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Demystifying the i-Device NVMe NAND

No, root pendrives must exploit bugs in USB/block/fs/UI subsystems of the OS. PCIe devices can read/write RAM directly as they please unless isolated behind IOMMU.

tmzt on Nov 18, 2016 [–]

Unless they are USB-C devices and the host supports Thunderbolt 3 without an IOMMU. An innoculous looking device could perform a DMA exploit.

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